Joe Manchin condemns Biden's "offensive" coal plant remarks

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) condemned President Biden's recent comments on shutting down power plants that burn coal Saturday, calling them "outrageous and divorced from reality."

Why it matters: Manchin's state is one of the country's biggest coal and gas producers. The coal-friendly senator and the president struck a deal to pass the Inflation Reduction Act, a climate-focused bill, in August.

Catch up quick: Biden said Friday during a speech in California on the CHIPS Act that coal plants cost too much money and that his administration will "be shutting these plants down all across America and having wind and solar."

Biden said he recently visited “the site of the largest old coal plant in America” in Massachusetts, which cost "too much money.”